Friday, August 30, 2019

gmail's plus sign trick

I am working on a test for the user registration on my website.  problem is I need to create a new account every time and that ties to the user's email address (gmail).  I couldn't create a new email account every time I ran the test.  Not only will I create a lot of email accounts (even if I can automate that) but also enabling API for each new account would have a lot of work.

Turns out there's a plus sign trick that can have a seemingly different email address send to the same email account.  someone@gmail.com and someone+12345@gmail.com will deliver to the same someone@gmail.com inbox!

With that, I can generate gmail addresses and search the inbox by "to: someone+12345@gmail.com" to retrieve the email for the test.

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